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FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 11, 1988

SIGNIFICANT INCREASES WERE RECORDED IN IMPORTS FROM THE TAIWAN PER CENT), REPUBLIC OF KOREA (+55 PER CENT), THE U.S.A. (+32 FEDERAL (+31 PER CENT), THE

REPUBLIC OF GERMANY

PER (+31

CENT), SINGAPORE (+31 PER CENT), CHINA (+30 PER CENT) AND SWITZERLAND (+29 PER CENT). THE VALUE OF IMPORTS FROM JAPAN INCREASED BY 26 PER CENT.

DURING THE SAME PERIOD OF COMPARISON, RE-EXPORTS TO JAPAN, THE FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF GERMANY AND CHINA

IN INCREASED SUBSTANTIALLY VALUE TERMS BY 91 PER CENT, 58 PER CENT AND 56 PER CENT RESPECTIVELY.

ALSO RECORDED

THE IN (+48 PER PER CENT),

VALUE CENT),

OF THE

SINGAPORE

WERE INCREASES NOTABLE RE-EXPORTS TO AUSTRALIA (+50 PER CENT), TAIWAN UNITED KINGDOM (+45 PER CENT), THE U.S.A. (+44 (+35 PER CENT) AND THE REPUBLIC OF KOREA (+34 PER CENT).

ARE MEASURED

AT CURRENT BETWEEN

ALL TRADE STATISTICS PRESENTED HERE PRICES AND NO ACCOUNT HAS BEEN TAKEN OF THE CHANGES IN PRICES THE PERIODS OF COMPARISON.

A SEPARATE ANALYSIS

OF THE

PRICE AND VOLUME MOVEMENTS OF EXTERNAL TRADE IN SEPTEMBER 1988 WILL BE RELEASED IN EARLY DECEMBER 1988.

THE CHANGES IN DOMESTIC EXPORTS TO HONG KONG'S TEN MAJOR MARKETS ARE SHOWN IN TABLE 1.

COMPARING JANUARY TO SEPTEMBER 1988 WITH THE SAME PERIOD IN WERE RECORDED IN 1987, INCREASES IN DOMESTIC EXPORTS IN VALUE TERMS MOST MAJOR COMMODITY DIVISIONS.

AUTOMATIC DATA

THE MORE NOTABLE ONES WERE OFFICE MACHINES AND

PHOTOGRAPHIC PROCESSING EQUIPMENT (BY $3,422 MILLION OR 53 PER CENT);

SUPPLIES AND APPARATUS, EQUIPMENT AND

OPTICAL GOODS, WATCHES AND

OR CLOCKS (BY $2,585 MILLION

24 PER CENT); ELECTRICAL MACHINERY, APPARATUS AND APPLIANCES AND ELECTRICAL PARTS THEREOF (BY $2,278 AND SOUND RECORDING MILLION OR 22 PER CENT); AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS AND REPRODUCING APPARATUS AND EQUIPMENT (BY $1,683 MILLION OR CENT).

16 PER

DOMESTIC EXPORTS OF CLOTHING INCREASED BY $16 MILLION THAN 0.5 PER CENT IN VALUE TERMS.

OR LESS

3 PER DECREASES WERE RECORDED IN TEXTILES (BY $287 MILLION OR

(BY $216 MILLION OR CENT); AND MISCELLANEOUS MANUFACTURED ARTICLES 1 PER CENT).

TABLE 2 ILLUSTRATES THE CHANGES IN DOMESTIC COMMODITY DIVISION.

EXPORTS BY MAJOR

THE CHANGES IN IMPORTS FROM HONG ARE SUMMARISED IN TABLE 3.

KONG'S TEN MAJOR

SUPPLIERS

/COMPARING JANUARY